Trump's coalition was very simple: people who bought his lies and were convinced he was the savior America's always been waiting for, and people who hate and distrust Hilary Clinton who decided he was the lesser of two evils.

The latter group would already trade Trump for someone else. The former group could turn on him if they realize they've been lied too.

I want no part of putting the voting power into the 6 largest cities in America

I've never gotten this argument. This isn't what getting rid of the electoral college would do. It would put equal voting power in the hands of every voter. A voter in New York City will have the same vote as a voter in Senatobia, Mississippi; and a voter Fargo, North Dakota will have the same vote as a voter in Los Angeles, California. Not everyone who votes in New York or LA votes the same way, and it would give those minority-party voters in New York and LA more power as well.

No, I wish. If you see the captions, I've only played a few. As a kid I used to write letters to some of the clubs and ask them to send me one. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I've had friends play some courses and grab and extra for me, and I've even just stopped by some courses while in the area and picked up a scorecard. I've found a few on the internet too.

But I want him to live in the White House, because I don't want millions and millions of dollars in tax payer money going to protect the tacky-ass penthouse with his name in gold letters on it on Fifth Avenue, one of the busiest streets in the country, when there's a perfectly wonderful residence built specifically to house the President and his offices on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington DC that has been lived in by Presidents for 240 years. It's irresponsible, and it's entirely selfish for him.

And actually, there's plenty that can be done about it if he choses to stay. Voters and taxpayers can protest and tell him to fuck off. The city of New York can refuse to foot the bill for the security, and congress can too, and he can pay for it himself. Honestly, that's all anyone is saying---- if you want to live outside the free, secure housing our nation provides for the President, fine. But you pay the fucking bill.

Yep, and that's why it's so fucked up that people want this moron to be President. Sorry, but you don't get to spend my tax money on protecting yourself if you refuse to live within the already set perimeters to protect yourself. Traditions and precedents exist for a reason. Sure, they can be changed, but if you're going to change them you better have a better reason than "I like my golden penthouse."

I know you're talking about Trump. I'm talking about Trump too. If he's the President, why aren't he and his family planning to live at the White House? I mean, that's where the President lives--- the White House in Washington DC, not Trump Tower in Manhattan.

I mean, it's incredibly obvious we're not talking about the same thing here. Trump's wife and kid are planning on living in a New York City luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue with the President-Elect's name in big gold letters on the front. The Obama's home security doesn't cost $500,000 a day.

Here's the thing: Trump has made his entire career pulling shit like this. Dreaming big and doing whatever he wants and then making other people foot the bill. That was the whole premise of Trump University--- OPM, other people's money.

So I think this is the exact right approach. New York lawmakers should say they aren't going to foot the bill anymore. They're going to open the streets, and if he and his family want to stay there, they can pay for the security. He'll move out of Trump Tower before he pays for it himself, because he's a fraud.

Yep. I've even used this with Republican friends and family here in North Carolina in talking about the Clinton-Trump race. I'd say "Look, I get that you don't like Clinton. You know how much I disagree with Pat McCrory. But if Pat McCrory was running against Kanye West, I'd vote for McCrory."

Back in like 2003, I was a summer intern at a church in Raleigh. They introduced me briefly during the service on my first Sunday. After the service, everyone gathered in the courtyard for lemonade, and I was kind of standing off by myself, since I didn't know anyone at the church.

One person came up and spoke to me. I watched him spot me, leave another conversation to come over to me and speak. "Hi GoMustard, my name is Roy Cooper, and I just want you to know we're glad you're here this summer." He asked me about where I was from and what I was hoping to do with my life. It wasn't until I was telling my mom about it later that she was like, "that was the Attorney General of North Carolina."

I was just a punk 19 year old kid with shaggy hair and a crooked tie. He had no good reason to come speak me, but he went out of his way to include me because he could see I wasn't included. I've never forgotten that kindness. I'm happy Roy Cooper is going to be our Governor.

I agree with you. I think this notion that we need drain the swamp and let "outsiders" running the country is like asking the head of the Hospital billing department to perform open heart surgery on you. It's the same stupid DYI attitude gone wild. Yeah, I can watch a few Youtube videos and fix my car, but the idea that I can do that just as well as a mechanic who does it a million times a day is really stupid. I see the Trump Administration as the DYI attitude gone way, way, way too wrong.

That said, it's something both sides of the aisle have started to do more and more in the internet age. I used to get really frustrated when people would paint Bush as stupid and ignorant--- he's a very smart man, and understands governance far more than the rest of us. That doesn't mean he's always going to be right (he certainly got it very wrong quite often), but I agree that we'd all do well to admit our own ignorance in some of these matters.

Yet that's kind of the problem, isn't it? Democracy tells us the common man's voice matters just as much as the expert who's studied this stuff his whole life. We go and vote for the person's who's opinion is the closest to our opinion on the matter, the guy we agree with the most, yet in truth most of us don't have a clue about how we should go about forming an opinion in the first place.

Actually I don't think that's necessarily true at all. Sure, the south has more fundamentalism, but there are plenty of non-fundamentalist Christian institutions in the south. My seminary, campus ministry, and all three churches I've served have been in the south, and in the case of the churches, all three have been smaller towns. We've always been among the most educated and highest earners in town, though.